In Other Words: A German Canadian Story
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN13:
9781547129027
$18.55
In Other Words is the story of a young German boy coming of age in small-town Canada. Immigrating to British Columbia after WWII, struggling with new words in a new country, the quiet boy in lederhosen tries to fit in with the loud boys in jeans, exploring new friendships amidst wide-eyed adventure in the valleys and mountains of the Kootenays. As young Norbert gradually captures and holds his new language, he learns to be Canadian while remaining German: he becomes multicultural. This book is at once an absorbing memoir, a valuable document on German Canadian experience, and a deep meditation on how language shapes our sense of time and place. "Norbert Ruebsaat's In Other Words is a book that moves deftly among a range of voices - voices at di erent ages, and in different languages and cultures, voices that take us from echoes of the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm to a child's life in the Canadian West, which was still a frontier in the mid-twentieth century. Above all, it is about an adventure in language, about how we are shaped by moving into a realm of "other words" . . . A riveting tale for all of us." - Stan Persky, author ofLetter from Berlin
- | Author: Norbert Ruebsaat
- | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- | Publication Date: Jun 01, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 380 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1547129026
- | ISBN-13: 9781547129027
- Author:
- Norbert Ruebsaat
- Publisher:
- CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication Date:
- Jun 01, 2017
- Number of pages:
- 380 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1547129026
- ISBN-13:
- 9781547129027